What is the ruling on using the science of human development, and its applications and exercises such as energy exercises, meditation, and yoga, after stripping them of their history and beliefs that contradict Islam, in order to benefit from them in strengthening religion and improving habits, taking into account that the subconscious mind does not differentiate between imagination and reality?
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The prohibition of these fields is linked to proscriptions and legal causes which cease to apply when those causes are no longer present. Juristic rulings revolve around their underlying causes. Whoever undertakes this task must be scientifically qualified, both in religious and worldly knowledge, to understand the pitfalls and know how to avoid them, as well as the means to find religiously permissible alternatives.
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